IODR is a UK Registered Charity working to alleviate the suffering of children and families in the Indian Ocean region through the provision of sustainable interventions that improve the capacity of local organisations and the livelihoods of local people, especially children and young people.

IODR VALUES

1. Integrity – Honesty
2. Transparency – Accountability
3. Striving towards best practice
4. Equality & Respect for all
5. Humanity – Sincerity
6. Listening to our beneficiaries and
    stakeholders.
7. Sympathetic to the environment
8. Corporate Social Responsibility
    (CSR) AND IODR.
9. Responsible Development.

THE IODR APPROACH IS:

1. Respond to local needs
2. Create participatory projects
3. Monitor and evaluate
4. Integrate and root in the local
    community.

The Weligama Community Welfare & Education Centre:

The Weligama Community Welfare & Education Centre is an IODR long term development project. It is currently being built on a 4 acre site near Weligama town in Southern Sri Lanka. The Weligama centre will provide a sustainable services and become a centre of excellence to the community for years to come.

Specifically, the Weligama Centre will identify vulnerable families and children in the community and work with them on livelihood programmes which will improve their education and employment opportunities.

There will also be a range of community health education and training programmes that will improve the capacity of local people and addressing specific health issues where adequate facilities and services are currently lacking... read more